Love is that as well, I was forgetting: it is taking a huge gamble, staking your all on a single improbable throw, jumping off a cliff and trusting an unknown person to catch you before you hit the ground.
A.P. .(But does time honour things? Sabine would teach me to ask. How? Why? And if it does, ought it to go on doing so? And for how long?)
A.P. .Tag: time traditions time-honoured
Where is the pain when your pride is wounded? And why do we say that: wounded? There is no gash, no blood, not even a scratch. Which part of us hurts? The brain cells? The neurons? What, for goodness' sake, what?
A.P. .Tag: logic pride wounded-pride
Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all serious illnesses do.
A.P. .Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?
A.P. ....nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love best, and who most do you want with you? Blithering idiots: it's life itself, can't you see? It's life I love best, and life I want with me. Go hang yourselves, all of you, you're only sapping my strength when most I need it. Leave me in peace and let me grapple.
A.P. .Tag: life death sickness dying deathbed
Love is never a problem, he said. Where there is love there is never a problem.
A.P. .Tag: love
I say sister because we were never too alike, too competitive with one another, ever to bond as friends: like the projecting pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, our characters, by reason of their similar cuts, could never really lock.
A.P. .Tag: friendship sister-bond
Serena had to cross her legs: in moments of dire amusement her bladder tended to play tricks.
A.P. .Tag: humor funny hilarious amusement
Forewarned is not forearmed, it is foreshadowed.
A.P. .Tag: foreshadowing forewarning
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